Laminar Flow Cabinet (sterile air flow chamber) – a laboratory equipment donated to Hawassa University.

Four Toyota Double Cabin Pickups donated to EIAR, OARI, ARARI and Hawassa University.

Ten Motor bikes given for partners.

One PhD – sandwich training program at Wageningen university (applied microbiology- biological nitrogen fixation) & contribution to thesis research PhD student at Queensland University, Australia (Animal feed); Four MSc/MA students: 2 in microbiology & animal nutrition at Hawassa University and 2 socioeconomics at Haramaya University. Five other MSc/MA students will be awarded soon.

Extension materials, i.e. booklets, leaflets, posters… produced in English and local languages, and distributed.

Non-degree trainings were given for over 1100 subject matter specialists from partner institutions (researchers, DAs, experts) on various topics (i.e. inoculant technology, legume agronomy, gender mainstreaming, nutrition, agri-business, data collections using tables)

The project has now reached over 25,000 farmers with inoculants, seeds & improved legume production technologies in 30 Woredas over 4 regions.

N2Africa - Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa

ILRI-N2Africa

Box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ● +251 11617 2200/25/33/35

ilri.org ● n2africa.org ● n2africa-Ethiopia.wikispaces.com

N2Africa project is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

About N2Africa

Capacity building: One of the four pillars of the

N2Africa PPP model

N2Africa-Ethiopia partners

N2Africa project in strengthening the capacity

of partners working within legume value chains

in Ethiopia

N2Africa is a large scale, science-based “research-in-

development” project, launched in Ethiopia in January

2014.

Vision of success:

Build sustainable, long-term partnerships to enable

smallholder farmers to benefit from symbiotic N2-fixation

by grain legumes through effective production

technologies including inoculants and fertilizers.

Contribute to enhancing soil fertility, improving

household nutrition, and increasing the income levels of

smallholder farmers.

Target grain legumes are chickpea, common bean, faba

bean and soybean.

A strong national expertise in grain legume production and

N2-fixation research and development are the legacy of the

project.

N2Africa believes local capacity building is a key success

factor to sustain the pipeline for delivery of continuous

improvement in legume production technologies tailored to

local settings.

Stakeholders’ capacity development ranges from

organizational (physical) to enhancing human

competencies on improved legume technologies,

agribusiness, gender mainstreaming, legume

value addition and nutrition.

Birhan Abdulkadir, Endalkachew Wolde-meskel and Tamiru Amanu

International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

This poster is copyrighted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). It is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. March 2016